December 2, 2010

If you had told me preseason that Aaron Murray would throw for 2,851 yards, 24 TDs and only 6 INTs with one game remaining on the schedule, I would've thought for sure that we'd have won 9-10 games. Easily. But here we sit at 6-6. (Image by Jim Hipple)

As a point of comparison, here are the first year starter totals for other recent UGA QBs:

Joe Cox (RSr.) - 2,584 yards / 24 TDs / 15 INTs

Matt Stafford (Fr.) - 1,749 / 7 TDs / 13 INTs

DJ Shockley (RSr.) - 2,588 / 24 TDs / 5 INTs

David Green (RFr.) - 2,789 / 17 TDs

Quincy Carter (Fr.) - 2,484 / 12 TDs

Mike Bobo (RJr.) - 2,440 / 13 TDs

Eric Zeier (Fr.) - 1,984 / 7 TDs

INT information isn't as easy to get your hands on prior to 2004. Also...Bobo was technically a first year starter in 1995, but he was injured so early that I didn't think it was fair to post those stats.

Murray's current passer rating of 162.7 is greater than Mike Bobo's UGA single season record of 155.8. His 61.8% completion percentage is third best in UGA history for a single season, and he's one TD away from tying the single season Georgia record Matt Stafford obtained in his final season before being the #1 pick of the draft.

Murray is a reason to have hope for hte future no doubt. By the way, is that picture of the play where Fairley is "blocked into" Murray and knocks him out of the game? It sure looks like the heavyweight champ is locked in on that leg to me. I hope he gets more bs celebration penalties called on him.

He was the only pleasant surprise of the entire season. No one else played out of the norm from what was expected. Some might say Houston but thats about what I expected from him. Too many underachievers for a multitude of reasons.